NEW FACILITY: The
Music Library has been named for Dr. Harold S. Orendorff, former Chair of
the Music Department and first Dean of the College of Fine Arts at IUP.
Dr. Orendorff was honored by having the auditorium of Cogswell Hall named
after him, which is now part of the space that the music library occupies.
The new facility features a large commons area, with comfortable
furniture. Our score collection is housed on electronic compact
shelving; our book collection on standard shelving. The multi-media
pods feature computers, CD players and recorders, cassette players and
recorders, and turntables to listen to vinyl recordings. We also have
a seminar room for teaching small classes.

HOLDINGS: The collection
contains a broad variety of music materials, with strong holdings in
music monuments, collected editions and reference materials, and in
piano-vocal scores of operas and musical theater. Approximate
figures: 7,000 volumes of monuments and collected editions, 3,000
reference books, 7,000 circulating books, 15,000 scores, 10,000 LP
sound recordings and 2,500 compact disks. The library
includes the Charles Davis Collection of Jazz and Musical Theatre and
the Edward R. Sims Collection of Ethnic Musical Instruments, with
instruments representing every continent (still currently in storage). Among the more specialized
materials are the Albert R. Casavant Research Collection of marching
band and drill team materials. See our Collection
Development Policy.